From Family Lore to Reality: The Untold Story of My Dad's Bigfoot Encounter | Ken Hulsey
Over the years, I have been compiling stories about Bigfoot from eyewitnesses and writing articles about them. The most notable of these was co-written with my wife, Terri, and is titled "A Brief History of Bigfoot in Southern California." That piece was featured on the official Anza-Borrego Desert Park website at one point. Throughout my years of researching the Sasquatch mystery, I never realized that I had grown up in the same house as someone who had their own sighting.
My father, Joseph Hulsey, had been keeping a secret. For nearly 35 years, he remained tight-lipped about his encounter with a mysterious creature while on a hunting trip. Over those decades, my father and I watched numerous Bigfoot documentaries and TV shows, including the infamous episode where he fought the Six-Million-Dollar Man. He often recounted stories shared by fellow hunters about the creature. He also kept an out-of-place copy of the November 1968 issue of Natural Wildlife Magazine, which featured a story about the famous Roger Patterson film of Bigfoot, among his collection of hunting magazines. Although I always had my suspicions, my father passed away in 1995 without ever sharing his personal sighting with me.
It seems the only people he ever confided in were my brother Jim and his wife, Dava. Recently, after I reposted my well-known Bigfoot article, my sister-in-law asked if I had ever heard about Dad's sighting. Upon expressing my surprise and ignorance, she kindly shared the story with me.
According to the account, my dad and a group of fellow hunters were camping off Highway 395 near Walker, California, sometime in the early 1960s. The group enjoyed a steak lunch and tossed their bones and leftovers beneath a nearby tree. They then embarked on a late afternoon hunt. When they returned to their camp around dusk, they discovered an animal rummaging around near the tree where they had left the steak remnants. Approaching the animal, they assumed it was a bear. However, when the animal noticed the men coming closer, it stood upright and began to knock on the tree with its fist. My dad quickly realized that what they were facing was not a bear at all, but a very large humanoid creature covered in hair. The creature seemed to understand it was outnumbered and, instead of attacking, simply walked off into the nearby forest. None of the hunters, including my father, raised their guns to shoot the creature, believing that what they saw might have been some sort of primitive human being.
This makes one wonder how many other stories like this have gone untold out of fear of disbelief or ridicule.
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science - Paperback – by Jeff Meldrum
Written By Ken Hulsey
Check Out:
A Texas Size Mystery - Mass Flying Dinosaur Sightings In 1976 - AKA "The Big Bird"
Beyond the Showdowns: The Untold Truth About Gunfights in the Old West | Ken Hulsey
Meldrum reports on the work of a team of experts from a wide variety of fields who were assembled to examine the evidence for a large, yet undiscovered, North American primate. He reviews the long history of this mystery--which long predates the "Bigfoot" flap of the late fifties--and explains all the scientific pros and cons in a clear and accessible style, amplified by over 150 illustrations.
Anyone who has pondered the mysteries of human evolution will be fascinated and eager to join Dr. Meldrum in drawing their own conclusion.
Comments
Post a Comment